Fwd: An Introduction (Significance?)
Win Boogie (WinBoogie@aol.com)
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:37:58 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Win Boogie <WinBoogie@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: An Introduction (Significance?)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:29:17 EDT
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In a message dated 98-04-16 05:51:13 EDT, you write:
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How can anyone say who is the `best' writer of the Twentieth Century?
Who has any authority to make such a judgement? I was pretty appaled
about the idea that I would make claims about an entire country's
literary opinions about James Joyce, and claiming the `Best Writer of
the C20th' is a bit more momentous than that. Why does there *need* to
be a `best' anyway ? It's like asking `which is the better painting,
the Mona Lisa or Warhol's `100 Marilyns' ? The answer is, they are
both good but both totally different. The very concept of `bestness'
in the world of art is itself very tenuous. It all reminds me of the
J.Evans Prichard method of determining a poem's True Greatness (for
those of you who have seen `Dead Poet's Society' - and for those who
haven't I greatly suggest you do!)
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" They give awards for that kind of music? I thought they just give
earplugs. What's next? Greatest Nazi Dictator, Adolph Hitler?" -Woody Allen,
Annie Hall
Robert
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